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Chapter Viii. _of Definition._

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§ 1. A definition, what 148

2. Every name can be defined, whose meaning is susceptible of analysis 150

3. Complete, how distinguished from incomplete definitions 152

4. --and from descriptions 154

5. What are called definitions of Things, are definitions of Names with an implied assumption of the existence of Things corresponding to them 157

6. --even when such things do not in reality exist 165

7. Definitions, though of names only, must be grounded on knowledge of the corresponding Things 167

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